Talk:Andrew

Caroline's comments on Andrew: (including an apology for saying in my email we didn't talk about liability. We sure did, and Andrew did it well. Perhaps I was asleep by this point in the plane flight to Boston.)

[JSpaith] On the introduction section - this is a great topic sentence "When a software error affects so many people should someone be held liable?" My concern is that you should move this up a bit. There's a lot of statistics about complexity before we really know where you're headed with your section, which is liability.

Perhaps tie your intro it into Santu's, start your section with "Who gets blamed for Joe screwing Senator So-And-So over?" Can the cell-phone OEM or medical provider or whoever be legally responsible for what's happened? Santu's complex and interconnected scenario in 2014 natrually leads you to "Complexity of systems and prevalence of failure" after your introduction, where you can use all the statistics to how complex things are even in 2004 -- # of transistors, lines of code, etc...

[JSpaith] As I'll say many times again, I'm not a public policy guy. But the conclusion sentence as they taught in English class is supposed to be something somewhat universal that ties the paper together. If these are the rules we're playing by, you may reconsider the current last sentence in your section.